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joint-stock companies
n. (joint-stock company English)
Usage examples of "joint-stock companies".
In the mean time, innumerable joint-stock companies started up everywhere.
I call those second-rate fortunes, that are gained by manufacturing enterprises, joint-stock companies, viceroyalties, and principalities, not drawing more than 1,500,000 francs, the whole forming a capital of about fifty millions.